and clearly, all of this is entwined in politics, even though, as you say, the white house insists that he is indeed a private citizen. but the longer this drags on, and it was interesting, there was an acknowledgement from the prosecution in court today that investigations against hunter biden are continuing, although notably the prosecution didn t say precisely what they were investigating. but investigations are continuing. the longer this goes on, as we get closer and closer to the election next year, where hunter biden s father is trying to become the president again for a second term, joe biden, clearly this is going to potentially cause problems and to some extent could overshadow that campaign byjoe biden. it around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.
young people don t remember any times of war, and the economic growth that cambodia has experience, it has been very high, has come with very high costs. there is yawning inequality, terrible injustices, lots of land of actions, rapacious expectations of cambodia s resources and very high levels of corruption. hun manet is relatively untested, he hasn t held high political office, he became head of the army, became more visible during the election campaign, but nobody knows whether he can manage the sort of tumultuous ingredients of cambodian politics as skilfully as his father did. as his father did. jonathan head reporting as his father did. jonathan head reporting there. - to the united states where president biden s son hunter has unexpectedly pleaded not guilty to two charges of tax offences. ajudge in delaware had been deciding whether to approve a deal under which hunter biden would avoid conviction on a separate charge of illegally owning a gun, on the assumption he would en
days after losing that election it was hunter biden himself who announced that he was under federal investigation related to attacks case. trump perhaps understood this to be a missed opportunity. anyway, the doj investigation continued, and under joe biden s presidency, hunter biden was charged with two misdemeanors for failing to pay his taxes on time in 2017 and 2018. biden is also facing a separate charge for failing to disclose he was using drugs when he bought a gun back in 2018. and so when after all of these years was poised to conclude today as biden s lawyers entered a delaware court, ready to plead guilty to the tax charges. the guilty plea was part of the agreement that he had reached with the prosecutor, a trump appointee. that agreement stated that hunter biden wouldn t be prosecuted for the gun charge if he abided by certain conditions. experts say that this is a
in the future, especially as they apply to taxes, if this deal gives him some sort of future immunity. she wasn t clear from the detail that she was given and she sent the two sides away. the prosecution and the defence, gave them two weeks to present her with a deal that, at least in her mind, makes sense and she is able to understand it. and only then will she make a decision as to whether she can indeed in the court, rubber stamp this, and that would ultimately mean that hunter biden wouldn t face anyjail time. well, republicans have always alleged that he was offered a lenient plea deal because he is the president s son. while president biden says he s a private citizen and this is a personal matter. but could this become a huge headache as we, of course, head into the presidential elections? well, yeah, republicans have described this as a so called sweetheart deal , that he s being given preferential treatment because of who he is.
for what she believed in. let s turn to the united states. president biden s son, hunter, has unexpectedly pleaded not guilty to two charges of tax offences. ajudge in delaware had been deciding whether to approve a deal under which hunter biden would avoid conviction on a separate charge of illegally owning a gun on the assumption he would enter a guilty plea. but the process ran into some hurdles. this is an unusual situation. everyone expected this to be a relatively straightforward court appearance where this deal between prosecutors and the defense would be, to use the judge s own words, rubberstamped in the court. and the judge said she wasn t able to do that. we expected hunter biden to, as you ve just explained,